LAGOS - STAKEHOLDERS in the nation's Maritime Industry, weekend, warned that the plan to sack no fewer than 3,000 Dockworkers by the Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, would throw the maritime sector
into industrial unrest that could seriously hurt the fragile Nigeria's economy.
The stakeholders in a statement argued that it was saddening to note that some persons with ulterior motives could put forward the proposal for the sacking of "Tally Clerks and Onboard Security men" at terminals and replacing them with "Cargo Surveyors."
On the platform of Maritime Watchdog, the stakeholders in the statement by their Secretary and Legal Adviser, Macjohnson Odey II, argued that it was on record that the responsibilities of Tally Clerks and Onboard Security men, were very different from that of "Cargo Surveyors," insisting that the underlying motive for the planned sack of these groups of Dockworkers was shortsighted and, wicked.
Source: Vanguard
